PANDURITO said:

I have all their albums except for Touch the World, Heritage and Millennium (87-93).

These haven't been remastered, have they?

Are they easy to get on CD?

'Millenium' is very easy to find.'Heritage' has been out of print for years,but check ebay.

For some reason,'Touch The World' is hard to find,but I think there is an import copy that was released a few years ago.It may have been remastered.

Thanks. I'll try that

StarMon said:

Reel said:

Dag...you unleashed all of the greatest hits ^^^^^ Evil was one of my favorites. As are "Imagine", "Evolution Orange"..."I've had Enough"..."Jupiter".

That's not even scratching the surface, you know we can roll deep with som' EWF.

Evil is such a groove , and Imagination is simply bad ass. Jupiter is another selection that Phenix Horns stand up on.

"Evil" is my shit!!!!

I love their side projects/collaboartions too such as these ones..

Maurice White & Charles Stepney gave birth to magic

Harlepolis said:

I love their side projects/collaboartions too such as these ones..

Maurice White & Charles Stepney gave birth to magic

Harlepolis said:

I love their side projects/collaboartions too such as these ones..

Maurice White & Charles Stepney gave birth to magic

Yeah "Sun Goddess" with Ramsey Lews was hot. Still had that Brazillian Jazz vibe...was awesome. Actually Maurice White used to be a session drummer back in the day.... I believe that he used to also drum for Ramsey Lewis. So after he got "put on"...he re-connected with Ramsey and big things happened.

Reel said:

Harlepolis said:

I love their side projects/collaboartions too such as these ones..

Maurice White & Charles Stepney gave birth to magic

Yeah "Sun Goddess" with Ramsey Lews was hot. Still had that Brazillian Jazz vibe...was awesome. Actually Maurice White used to be a session drummer back in the day.... I believe that he used to also drum for Ramsey Lewis. So after he got "put on"...he re-connected with Ramsey and big things happened.

EWF is proof positive that if you have a dream, and talent, and work hard at it and are not studio or producer manufactured with alot of posturing and gimmick and hyperbole, that you CAN succeed.

The industry has changed and I really wonder if EWF was to have been created now I really doubt they would have been successful, UNLESS they were some labels pet project.

Maurice paid his dues, worked behind the scenes at Chess with many luminaries, learned his craft with Ramsey, broke off to do his thang, and here we are 40 + years later celebrating one of the greatest, most influential and musically diverse groups of all-time.

Reese is a music God.

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Reel said:

Harlepolis said:

I love their side projects/collaboartions too such as these ones..

Maurice White & Charles Stepney gave birth to magic

Yeah "Sun Goddess" with Ramsey Lews was hot. Still had that Brazillian Jazz vibe...was awesome. Actually Maurice White used to be a session drummer back in the day.... I believe that he used to also drum for Ramsey Lewis. So after he got "put on"...he re-connected with Ramsey and big things happened.

Yep

The "Shinning Star" DVD documentary shed afew lights on EW&F's background(I didn't know that they provided the soundtrack behind Melvin Van Peebles' "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song").

And Verdine White said that Maurice was the drummer behind Mary Wells' "My Guy" and Fontella Bass' "Rescue Me". Now I don't know if thats a fact or a distorted information

I wish somebody picked up on the "Kalimba" instrument though. I loved his playing and I love the fact that it was a signature mark of their music, but I'm so intrested in what other artists can do with it too,,,,sort of like what Roger Troutman did with the "talk box" after Stevie Wonder flirted with it.

Harlepolis said:

Reel said:

Yeah "Sun Goddess" with Ramsey Lews was hot. Still had that Brazillian Jazz vibe...was awesome. Actually Maurice White used to be a session drummer back in the day.... I believe that he used to also drum for Ramsey Lewis. So after he got "put on"...he re-connected with Ramsey and big things happened.

Yep

The "Shinning Star" DVD documentary shed afew lights on EW&F's background(I didn't know that they provided the soundtrack behind Melvin Van Peebles' "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song").

And Verdine White said that Maurice was the drummer behind Mary Wells' "My Guy" and Fontella Bass' "Rescue Me". Now I don't know if thats a fact or a distorted information

I wish somebody picked up on the "Kalimba" instrument though. I loved his playing and I love the fact that it was a signature mark of their music, but I'm so intrested in what other artists can do with it too,,,,sort of like what Roger Troutman did with the "talk box" after Stevie Wonder flirted with it.

From all the sources (yeah, including wikepdia) I found on the WEB including some Maurice-related websites (Facebook, etc..), all give credit to him and Louis Satterfield for being on that RESCUE ME track.

Allnall said:

Reel said:

Yeah "Sun Goddess" with Ramsey Lews was hot. Still had that Brazillian Jazz vibe...was awesome. Actually Maurice White used to be a session drummer back in the day.... I believe that he used to also drum for Ramsey Lewis. So after he got "put on"...he re-connected with Ramsey and big things happened.

EWF is proof positive that if you have a dream, and talent, and work hard at it and are not studio or producer manufactured with alot of posturing and gimmick and hyperbole, that you CAN succeed.

The industry has changed and I really wonder if EWF was to have been created now I really doubt they would have been successful, UNLESS they were some labels pet project.

Maurice paid his dues, worked behind the scenes at Chess with many luminaries, learned his craft with Ramsey, broke off to do his thang, and here we are 40 + years later celebrating one of the greatest, most influential and musically diverse groups of all-time.

Reese is a music God.

[Edited 7/8/10 7:23am]

You got it!!!

Maurice during his solo hiatus.

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Reel said:

I'm deeply digging all those live-clips in Brasil. Man, that audience was on fire. They were deep into those grooves.

Some brasilian artists such as Banda Black Rio and Gilberto Gil were inspired by the sharp brass-arrangements performed by the legendary Phenix Horns

Here's a solo-joint from one of 'em :

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Nice pictures Shango ^^^

You're welcome Reel ! From Rahmlee's MySpace

Here 2 great tracks produced by Maurice :

badujunkie said:

Just saw them at Essence! (Half the crowd got up and left tho since they are used to Frankie Beverly & Maze closing...smh)

I was so tired, after 3 days, 3 nights, sitting through Mary I was irritated. But then they came on and BAM!! Them motherfuccaz still got it. God it was heaven. I was the only white boy up and dancing and i didn't givva fuck. Kalimba Story live never gets old!!! Neither does Love's Holiday, Cant hide love, lets groove, devotion...on and on and on and on.

Love me just watching Verdyne!!!!

Still my 2nd fave band of all time after TLC.

I got some video from backstage but I gotta figure out how to upload that shit. They truly shut Essence DOWN! Verdyne's perm is still FIYAH! Great show. Fuck Maze!

Reel said:

pic

This is the very first line-up of Earth, Wind & Fire with the original three Salty Peppers.

Pre: Ronnie, Jessica, Larry, Ronald, Ralph and Philip.

The best line-up was the fourth: Reese, Verdine, Fred, Philip, Larry, Ralph, Ronald, Johnny, Al, Andrew + The Phenix Horns.

StarMon said:

Reel said:

pic

This is the very first line-up of Earth, Wind & Fire with the original three Salty Peppers.

Pre: Ronnie, Jessica, Larry, Ronald, Ralph and Philip.

The best line-up was the fourth: Reese, Verdine, Fred, Philip, Larry, Ralph, Ronald, Johnny, Al, Andrew + The Phenix Horns.

Starmon.......absolutely correct.

When they got going, they played like nobody's business.....Maurice could smile at any of those musicians and know that each one was as talented as anyone in order to take his vision to the next level.

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Luv me some EWF!!!! I worship the ground they walk on! I wish i could have seen them in their prime back in the 70's and early 80's.

Earth Wind and Fire is my Father's all time favorite group so I can funk as well.

My favorite songs are In The Stone, September, Fantasy, Jupiter, Let's Groove, Reasons. Among so many others.

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